The iPod’s impact was seismic. By giving us instant access to our entire audio collections, it allowed us to fall in love with listening to music all over again through those iconic white earbuds. And in iTunes – the Mac app that was initially required to transfer and sync your music – we had the perfect interface to convert our music CDs to digital and then be super-geeky in managing and curating our new MP3 libraries.
These were joyful, simpler times before the technology skyrocketed and iPhones started to replace iPods in the household, and before the Apple Music streaming service eradicated the need to even store the tracks on your device. For many, the golden age of the iPod was when it didn’t allow access to any other distractions beyond the music and the bright colours of the casings reflected our youthful exuberance but, as you will recollect on the following pages, tech waits for no one.
iPod classic
An icon and a cultural game changer
The very first iPod won from the moment it was announced. In a fledgling digital music industry it was head and shoulders above the competition, and it breathed new life into Apple and the entire tech world, which continues to benefit from its legacy to this
